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Brief Guide to Replication Materials for Goldsmith & Moens, "The Personality of a Personality Cult? Personality
Characteristics of Donald Trump’s Most Loyal Supporters" Political Psychology (accepted 26 April 2024).

The replication materials are for use with Stata statistical software, version 18.0.

They contain the following Stata command (.do) and data  (.dta) files:

Study 1

SumStats_S1.do
MainAnalysis_S1.do
CreateDataSet.do
Centering.do
CreateWeights.do
Final_Lucid.dta
Final_Qualtrics.dta

Study 2

SumStats_S2.do
MainAnalysis_S2.do
anes_clean.do [this file shows how we created anes_vars_2016 from the full ANES data]
anes_vars_2016.dta 

To reproduce all the results in the paper (excluding the news media frequencies in Figure 1 and the 
results presented in the appendix) the following command files should be run: 

SumStats_S1.do
MainAnalysis_S1.do
SumStats_S2.do
MainAnalysis_S2.do.

These use the other command and data files. The only change that must be made to each of these four command 
files and also CreateDataSet.do and anes_clean.do prior to replicating the results is to change the name of the home directory to the loction where you 
save the replication package. That is, you must insert this path at the top of each file to replace 
"C:\PCult_Replication" where you see the text:

*Change the directory to the location of the replication files on your computer
cd "C:\PCult_Replication"

If you would like replication materials for the appendix and/or media frequency figures, please contact us. We 
intend to post these soon as well, but have posted this replication package for the main results simultaneously 
with the article pre-print. 

Please address any questions or reports of errors to us at: ben.goldsmith@anu.edu.au or lars.moen@univie.ac.at .





